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Thank you, Mr. Chair. I don’t believe this is intended, in any way, shape or form, to take jobs away. It’s intended to offer employees an opportunity to keep more on top and have us help push some of the information to them so that they can be aware.
But also, everything is manual around training right now and this gives us an opportunity to plug it into the system so it’s included on e-performance and all of those types of things. It is a useful tool.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The PeopleSoft development module will support the Department of Human Resources e-performance module that we’ll launch in 2013-14 through on-line learning plans for employees. It will also support the training programs and initiatives for all GNWT departments. The e-development module will replace existing manual processes with employee self-service on-line applications, managers’ self-service approvals, provide auto enrolment, wait listing, auto notifications, and information for reporting what is not currently available.
As well, it will replace the Public Works and...
Yes, I do, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Speaker, we got a lot of good information at that meeting and we’re obviously looking for more on a regular basis. To that end, we have posted the minutes from the meeting on our website, and we’re also seeking additional input. We’re seeking ideas from the community on how to deal with some of these public safety issues.
There are a number of things that have already started. Issues were raised about communication between RCMP and the municipal enforcement division here in Yellowknife, both from a personal communication but also technical communications issues have been brought forward to...
That’s already been done. The RCMP participate on the city’s Police Advisory Committee. We’ve had discussions with the RCMP and they also see this as being a valuable opportunity to have some eyes and ears on the streets of Yellowknife to share information with them. I believe they have already taken this to the police, an advisory committee, and have already had discussions on that.
But it’s going to take more. It’s going to take individuals to come forward as well. As a government, as the Department of Justice, we’re very supportive of this opportunity and we will provide assistance where...
This training module won’t only be for PeopleSoft training; it is for training that is mandatory for GNWT employees and training that we may someday make mandatory for training employees. It will track all training.
We’re also doing e-performance on-line; we’re doing payroll on-line, so every individual employee of the GNWT has to go in and access PeopleSoft. So now they’ll have this resource available to them, basically through the same connection, that will allow them to be aware of all training that is available, whether it is mandatory or not mandatory, so that we continue to be a positive...
Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me today are Sheila Bassi-Kellett, the deputy minister of the Department of Human Resources; and Michelle Beard, who is the director of HR strategy and policy.
It’s a title. The coordinator is a title. This individual will be reviewing policies across departments that are coming under this Anti-Poverty Action Plan and making sure that they’re moving forward. The larger responsibility, obviously, belongs to the individual Ministers and the Social Envelope Committee of Ministers to make sure that departments are working together, and each department has their own policy unit who can do analysis. So this coordinator will play an important role in analyzing and making recommendations on where these barriers tend to, or may, exist. Thank you.
Thank you. The Ministers responsible for the social envelop have continued to have conversations on how we can bring the departments together to work more effectively together. In the development of our action plan, which we’ve shared with committee, the draft action plan, we worked really hard to make sure that we’re using common language and where there was certain crossover between initiatives like the Economic Opportunities Strategy and Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan that the Minister is coming forward with, as well the Early Childhood Development Framework and Action Plan, as...
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I’d like to recognize my parents, Dick and Loretta Abernethy, in the gallery. Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad.